IN ITS role as the Building Safety Regulator, the Health and Safety Executive has appointed Collaborative Reporting for Safer Structures (CROSS-UK) as the official voluntary reporting system for structural and fire safety “until at least 2028”. [Read More]

PROMAT HAS released a significant update to its renowned Passive Fire Protection Handbook, which offers a ‘go-to’ resource for Best Practice in specifying and installing passive fire protection systems across the UK’s construction sector. [Read More]

FROM 6 April 2026, the Fire Safety (Residential Evacuation Plans) (England) Regulations 2025 will require ‘Responsible Persons’ (typically building owners or managers) to identify residents who may need help evacuating in a fire and to take steps to support them. These residents, referred to as ‘relevant residents’, may have mobility, sensory or cognitive impairments. [Read More]

SIDERISE HAS provided a suite of masonry passive fire protection products for Waterhouse Gardens, an exciting five-tower development built on the historic former Boddington Brewery site in the heart of Manchester’s city centre. [Read More]

THE BRITISH Automatic Fire Sprinkler Association’s (BAFSA) online learning centre has reached a key milestone by issuing its four-hundredth certificate for the Awareness of Automatic Fire Sprinkler Systems Continuing Professional Development course since the latter was launched last October. [Read More]

AN EXCITING milestone for the professional AV and systems integration community has been realised by Nineteen Group with the launch party for the all-new Pro Integration Future Europe exhibition, which was held at Aures London on 2 July. [Read More]

THE ASSOCIATION of Construction Quality Professionals (ACQP) has welcomed the appointment of Andy Roe KFSM as the non-executive chair of the new Board put in place by the Government to oversee the Building Safety Regulator. According to the ACQP, Roe brings “significant operational leadership and Emergency Services experience” to the role, qualities which the organisation believes to be essential for driving improvements in the UK’s building safety culture. [Read More]

FOLLOWING ON from the success of The Event Manchester in 2024, the Protec Fire and Security Group continued its national outreach by hosting The Event Leeds, which was held on 15 May at the prestigious Aspire venue in the heart of Leeds city centre. [Read More]